This morning, I woke up bright and early, intending to get a bunch of stuff done. I lazed around a bit and then was seriously planning a 9 a.m. swim. I started writing a list of stuff to do, because marking stuff off a list gives you a tangible sense of accomplishment and focus. I even wrote down swimming as one of the things I needed to do, so I’d get a freebie task in there. And as I did that, I could hear a group of noisy children going to the pool.

There went my swim. I hoped they’d go away, but they didn’t. So I kept working on my list.

The only trouble is, I can’t figure out where I put my list. How’s that for bad organization? Nowdothis provides a web resource checklist, but it’s limited in space and anyway, I was too lazy to do it. Besides, my list doubled as a shopping list, and the computer can’t come with me to the store.

So after accomplishing some of the tasks, I made a new list to check off. And now I have plenty of things more to do.

What I did do:

• Gathered stuff to take to Goodwill. Including clothes, books and household items. It really was all gathered up, but I needed to put it in transportable form.
• Took stuff to Goodwill. Normally they’re more helpful. Today the help was just surly. And they wouldn’t take a couple of things. I should’ve just thrown it in there when the surly help wasn’t looking.
• Went to Wal-Mart to buy cat litter. And then bought a bunch of other necessary crap. And had a very helpful (for once) employee help me with the self-checkout when I realized that trying to pick up 30 pounds of cat litter and turning it upside down was not a good idea.
• Went to the drug store to get prescriptions refilled
• Made lunch, consisting of a couple of grilled cheese and veggie meat sandwiches on yummy sprouted grain bread
• Played fetch with one of the cats for *hours*
• Cleaned out my car

I feel good now that that donated stuff is out of the house. It was taking up a couple of big spaces and now I feel like I can move on to something else, like cleaning our bedroom. And when I say cleaning our bedroom, I mean cleaning up the mess that is 99% mine, now that Jade has moved out. Most of it involves laundry, clean and dirty, piled up. Another part of it involves the dresser next to my side of the bed. It sorta doubles as an auxiliary dumping area for me. That’s got to stop too.

I have been keeping up with keeping things straight downstairs, and it’s my hope that once everything is straight upstairs, I can keep that up as well.

No bites on the room for rent. On my list of things to do is repost. Well, that can be saved for later. Along with a good long swim after work.